A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
336 pages
English language
Published Jan. 27, 2020 by Metropolitan Books.
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, "in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone." Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi's great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.
I stopped reading these after Hamas atrocities but just finished it quickly. A remarkable book bringing to light at least for me the flaws with the Oslo accord, parallels between today the 1982 war in Lebanon, etc...
